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A review by cassiereads42
Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum by Jennifer Cook O'Toole
5.0
My copy of this book is now tabbed and highlighted so heavily it looks like I might have read it for a college course and then wrote an essay diving deep into the authors words.
It’s the book that I will lovingly hand the next woman in my life who gets her late diagnosis.
It’s the book I will find phrases in for years to come in an attempt to explain my brain and how it works.
It’s the book that I will fall asleep to as I graze over the highlighted pages looking for the comfort within.
See…the book knows who I am. From the first pages to the last I cried. It’s almost as if the book had been written BY me. But alas, it was not.
I reached out to the lovely author and received an email video response from her. She is so special and loving and caring. She truly cares for other autistics and it came through in her book—and I want to be that same way. I want to wear my autism fearlessly, because up until I got that book, I had been so full of fear that nobody truly knew who I was. Nobody really spent time with me. They spent time with my version of who I wanted to be, to make them happy.
And now I present to you—my fully autistic self. The same woman who came out within those pages as I read them like others before me. My pride and my confidence grew as my highlighter slowly and carefully slid over each letter that I wanted to accentuate.
If you’re autistic and female presenting—read this.
If you’re the loved one or friend or boss or co-worker to an autistic person—read this.
It’s the book that I will lovingly hand the next woman in my life who gets her late diagnosis.
It’s the book I will find phrases in for years to come in an attempt to explain my brain and how it works.
It’s the book that I will fall asleep to as I graze over the highlighted pages looking for the comfort within.
See…the book knows who I am. From the first pages to the last I cried. It’s almost as if the book had been written BY me. But alas, it was not.
I reached out to the lovely author and received an email video response from her. She is so special and loving and caring. She truly cares for other autistics and it came through in her book—and I want to be that same way. I want to wear my autism fearlessly, because up until I got that book, I had been so full of fear that nobody truly knew who I was. Nobody really spent time with me. They spent time with my version of who I wanted to be, to make them happy.
And now I present to you—my fully autistic self. The same woman who came out within those pages as I read them like others before me. My pride and my confidence grew as my highlighter slowly and carefully slid over each letter that I wanted to accentuate.
If you’re autistic and female presenting—read this.
If you’re the loved one or friend or boss or co-worker to an autistic person—read this.